Employee Name
Dr. Pratap Roy
Official Address
Experimental Nuclear Physics Division,
Experimental Nuclear Physics Group,
Variable Energy Cyclotron Centre
1/AF, Bidhannagar Kolkata-700064, India.
Personal webpage: https://sites.google.com/view/prataproy/home
ORCID: 0000-0002-4838-4467
roypratap@vecc.gov.in
Contact Number
91-33-2318 2313
Designation
Scientific Officer (F)
Qualifications
- Ph.D. (2017): Homi Bhabha National Institute
- BARC Training School (OCES-2008, 52nd Batch, Physics)
- M.Sc. (2007): Presidency College (University of Calcutta).
- B.Sc. (2005): University of Calcutta.
Field of Work
• Nuclear Level Density & Thermodynamics
• Study of nuclear structure effect on nuclear reaction.
• Giant & Pigmy Dipole Resonance.
• Equilibrium and pre-equilibrium particle emission processes.
• Fast neutron detector development.
Publications
1. Effect of N/Z asymmetry on pre-equilibrium and equilibrium emission of light charged particles
S. Manna, Pratap Roy*, T. K. Rana et al., Phys. Rev. C 112, 014613 (2025).
2. The puzzle of suppression of nuclear level density in N ≈ Z Zn isotopes compared to N > Z
Pratap Roy*, K. Banerjee, N. Quang Hung et al., Physics Letters B 859 (2024) 139101
3. Excitation energy and angular momentum dependence of the NLD parameter around A≈110
Pratap Roy*, S. Mukhopadhyay, M. Aggarwal, et al., Phys. Rev. C 103, 024602 (2021)
4. No signature of the saturation of giant dipole resonance width in medium-mass nuclei
S. Mukhopadhyay, Pratap Roy, D. Mondal et al., Phys. Rev. C (Letter) 104, L031304 (2021)
5. Evidence for the reduction of nuclear level density away from the β-stability line
Pratap Roy*, K. Banerjee, T. K. Rana et al., Phys. Rev. C 102, 061601(Rapid) (2020)
6. Nuclear level density and thermal properties of 115Sn from neutron evaporation
Pratap Roy*, K. Banerjee, T. K. Rana et al., Eur. Phys. J. A (2021) 57:48
7. Detailed investigation on the possibility of using EJ-299-33A plastic scintillator for fast neutron spectroscopy in large scale experiments,
Pratap Roy*, K. Banerjee, A. K. Saha, et al., Nucl. Instr. and Meth. A 901 (2018) 198.
Awards / Honours
Awards:
# (2022): Young Achiever Award, DAE Symposium on Nuclear Physics.
# (2022): A. K. Rath Memorial Award, Indian Physics Association.
#(2021) Postdoctoral Fellowship, GSI Helmholtz Centre, Germany (2021).
#(2017) Young Scientist Award, DAE, Govt. of India.
#(2008/09): UGC NET, GATE, JEST scholarship for PhD
Special achievements:
> Co-PI for MONSTER–NUSTAR India, FAIR project.
> Contributor of IAEA CRP on nuclear level density.